Gilbert Lawall, PhD

Biography: Gilbert W. Lawall is a classics professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he was instrumental in establishing the MAT program in the classics. Lawall received his BA from Oberlin College and his PhD from Yale University. His research interests include Greek and Latin poetry, Hellenistic Greek poetry and its influence on Latin poetry, Senecan drama, and Greek and Latin pedagogy. Lawall is the author of Petronius: Selections from the Satyricon (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1988), coeditor with Betty Nye Quinn of Plautus' Menaechmi (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1978, 1995, reprint 2002), and coauthor with Sarah Lawall and Gerda Kunkel of The Phaedra of Seneca (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1982).